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Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the shake-your-money-maker dept.

An anonymous reader sent in a video clip showing Sun experimenting with shoving a data center through a simulated 6.7 Earthquake. Everything stays running, but some power cords came out and some screws worked loose. It's still kind of neat to see a bunch of racks shake like a polaroid.

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  1. Slashdot meets 21st century!? by Swizec · · Score: 5, Informative

    FUCKING HELL is that an embedded video I see in the story!? Holy shit, the geek website is ... in step with the times?

  2. Re:Hard drives?? by fm6 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Neither does Sun. This kind of shock-and-vibe testing is actually routine for their products — I've been in the lab where it's done. That lab can't handle anything bigger than a rack, hence the outsourcing of this particular test.